Mindless creativity is the practice of making art from one’s spirit. It requires the artist to remain in a stream of creative consciousness, or you may also call it, no mind. I begin the piece with color and forms only from my photos and then allow the process of choosing spontaneously direct the next step. From here my awareness is on balance, both in color and form as the image moves forward. In the end the image must feel grounded in something that resonates with my core even though I often have to sit with it for a while before I understand it’s significance, which is always perfect.
The world is seen in layers, stacking colors and ideas, shapes and patterns onto each other as if one were walking through their day with blurred vision, not taking in specifics but piecing together various parts and overlapping them, sensing what’s all around us that we sometimes miss when caught in our thoughts. What develops is another realm of existence expressed through tonality, textures and sounds. My composite images attempt to unveil the interaction we have with all things. It’s photography that represents my personal experience of the world. They are stories of multiple and perso
Awards 2024 PH21 Out of the Ordinary, Exhibition Image and Honorable Mention May 2024
2023 IPA Award, 3rd Place Fine Art Nudes 2023 London International Creative Contest, Finalist for Dreamer and Dog Images
2023 BIFA Gold and Silver Awards
2023, Conceptual Photography Exhibition, D’Art Gallery, Denver, CO, March 2023
2023 Mira Mobile Exhibition, Portugal, Top 50
2021 IPA AWARDS, Four Honorable Mentions and Juror Top Five for Spaces
2021 Mobiography Awards, Honorable Mention, Digital Art
2021 London International Creative Competition, Non-Professional Shoot Category
2021 Workshop Stories with Elizabeth Opalenik (Book)
2020 Mira Mobile Exhibition, Portugal
2019 BIFA GOLD Award, Ancestral Healing Series, Budhapest
2018 Robert Anderson Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 Art and Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO, Solo Show, May-June 2018
2017 IPA Award, 3rd Place for “A Small Amount of Courage” and chosen for Best of Show Exhibition, NYC.
2017 IPA Award, Honorable Mention for Shaman’s Apprentice Series
2017 Mobile Mira Exhibition, B&W Street Photography, Portugal
2017 WPGA 10th Pollux Awards, First Place Cell Phone, Honorable Mention Open Theme
2017 McNichols Building Exhibition, Denver, May 2017
2017 Romanian Embassy in Paris, The first “rencontres francophones de la vidéo mobile”.
2016 Crested Butte Wildflower Poster Winner
2016 Robert Anderson Gallery, January 29 – March 26, 2016 Denver, Co. Solo Show
2016 Open Shutter Gallery, April 2016, Durango, Co. Group Show
2015 Included in The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, by Christopher James. 3rd Edition
2015 A Small Amount of Courage, Book by Karen Divine won the Independent Publishers Award, First Place for Inspiration.
2015 Tethys Gallery in Florence, Italy, Most Wanted Visionaries
2015 International Color Award Nominee, 8th Annual, Fine Art, A Connection
